Dingqiang Ye

I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where I will be advised by Prof. Vishal Patel. I earned my M.S. (2025) and B.E. (2022) in Computer Science from SUSTech, advised by Prof. Shiqi Yu. In 2024, I was also fortunate to spend eight months as a visiting scholar at Michigan State University, supervised by Prof. Xiaoming Liu.

My research goal is to develop recognition intelligent that can accurately re-identify objects in the physical world and bring a positive impact on people's lives. To this end, my interests lie at vision foundation models, object re-identification and generative AI. Currently, I am working on leveraging large vision models to identify human subjects at a distance.

Publications ( show selected / show by date / show by topic )

Topics: Computer Vision / (* indicates equal contribution and † indicates equal advising)

BiggerGait: Unlocking Gait Recognition with Layer-wise Representations from Large Vision Models
Dingqiang Ye*, Chao Fan*, Zhanbo Huang, Chengwen Luo, Jianqiang Li, Shiqi Yu, Xiaoming Liu

Arxiv 2025 / Paper

SapiensID: Foundation for Human Recognition
Minchul Kim, Dingqiang Ye, Yiyang Su, Feng Liu, Xiaoming Liu

CVPR 2025 / Paper

BigGait: Learning Gait Representation You Want by Large Vision Models
Dingqiang Ye*, Chao Fan*, Jingzhe Ma, Xiaoming Liu, Shiqi Yu

CVPR 2024 / Paper / Code

Pedestrian Attribute Editing for Gait Recognition and Anonymization
Jingzhe Ma*, Chao Fan*, Dingqiang Ye, Shiqi Yu

Arxiv 2023 / Paper

Experience
Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University
Apr. 2024 -- Dec. 2024

Working on an IARPA-funded program, BRIAR.
Human Recognition at Long Range and from High Altitude

Software Engineer Intern, Tencent
Jul. 2021 -- Sep. 2021

Worked for WeTV, one of China's largest online video platforms, backend development team.

Teaching
Teaching Assistant, SUSTech
Sep. 2019 -- Jul. 2023

  • CS112: Introduction to Python Programming,   Spring 2023
  • CS203: Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis,   Fall 2020
  • CS110: Introduction to Java Programming,   Fall 2019

    • Projects
    Contributor, OpenGait
    Jul 2022 -- Apr 2024

    A flexible and extensible gait analysis project. The corresponding paper has been accepted by CVPR2023 as a highlight paper.

    Leader, SUSTech Tower Defense Game
    Sep 2020 -- Jan 2021

    A Tower Defence Game based on Unity 3D, using scale models of Minecraft SUSTech.